Guy Marineau

Guy Marineau was born in 1947 in Saint-Germain-en-Laye to a father from Vendée and a mother from Brittany. At the age of three, he was entrusted to an aunt in Brittany on the Crozon peninsula due to slight health problems. Subsequently his parents decided to leave the Paris region and the family settled in Orthez, in the South-West. His Jesuit education instilled in him essential values. He became interested in the world of images at the age of ten and acquired his first camera, disappointing his mother's plans to see him as a banker. He began an apprenticeship in 1963 in a photography company. For three years, Guy learned the art of portraiture, wedding photography and reporting as a correspondent for the newspaper Sud Ouest, shooting in the camera, the studio and the laboratory. The basics of "provincial" photography which will serve him throughout his career. Military service remains a founding experience of his life as of his profession: incorporated in March 1967 into the 57th Infantry Regiment near Bordeaux, he developed Instantly gift as a sniper and become sniper with war rifle. He would later apply his shooting technique to fashion show photography. In 1971, he left Béarn to go to Paris. Getting off the train at 7 a.m., he gets a job at 11 a.m. His first interview, concerning a position in the Prefecture's forensic photo identification service, went well. The second, with the large Réalité press group, is going wonderfully. He made black and white prints in their laboratory and was hired on the spot: another era.